Argorak

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by Argorak 12y ago
Uber runs services despite knowing that they are against local law and waits until courts stop them. I think the comparison at least has some merits.
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by Argorak 12y ago
The source directory of libtsm, which only does the state handling for an abstract screen, is already ~11k without tests, so 30k doesn't surprise me. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/libtsm
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by Argorak 12y ago
The other half being providing a service they find worthwhile that doesn't change at every whim. Taken to the other extreme, a constantly breaking Github doesn't have any value proposition. Promises are not always explicit and not
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by Argorak 12y ago
The promise any service makes. To solve my problems and to work _as a service_ for me.
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by Argorak 12y ago
I beg to differ. Github pushes its code rendering as far as possible, including providing widgets to embed code snippets into you blog. It is also the _main content they display all the time_. That's not "non-essential". Just
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by Argorak 12y ago
I've also seen clusterssh: http://freecode.com/projects/clusterssh
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by Argorak 12y ago
TicTacToe can be easily played to a draw, unconditionally. Optimal play is simple, even for humans and optimal play leads to a draw.
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by Argorak 12y ago
Let's start with the man himself: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.... . He would call it "open", but not "free". The point is that the free software movement views th
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by Argorak 12y ago
Given that the statement is very short, I'd expect that cutting out features is the point Brad puts more weight on. For example, Neovim has plans to remove ex: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1089
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by Argorak 12y ago
"Good" is a definition that differs, depending of the side you are on. Also, what is "non-free"? Some FOSS advocates would say that they just did that, because it now allows building non-free derivatives for everyone wit
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by Argorak 12y ago
The important point is that they have a CLA and that one contains copyright assignment. The company behind LightTable holds all rights on your contributions. As the copyright holder, they can change the license however they wish.
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by Argorak 12y ago
The OS X userland and some other parts are derived from FreeBSD. One of the project initiators (Jordan Hubbard[1]) went to Apple and ported it for the initial version of OS X. He now left. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths#Free
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by Argorak 12y ago
You have to add some context :D. Yes, ConTeXt is so old that "Google" (or any kind of search engine) wasn't a thing back then, leading to that unfortunate situation. The Wiki is really good and links to a lot of resources, th
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by Argorak 12y ago
But the quote equally shows how much it is not intended to be.
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by Argorak 12y ago
Magic: The Gathering is turing complete. SQL as well. Petri-Nets with certain extensions are. Many logic systems are. They are hardly programming languages.
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by Argorak 12y ago
You fall into a simple trap: TeX is not a programming language. At all. It's a typesetting DSL. Whether it's a good one is another thing.
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by Argorak 12y ago
http://patoline.org/ tries to be better and it seems like the authors have a good grasp of typesetting.
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by Argorak 12y ago
The statement is being downvoted for glossing over 2 huge technologies in a sentence. What, for example, is the "obsolete" things you are speaking about? (not that I want to argue that there are none, but give us something to talk
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by Argorak 12y ago
I would also like to encourage you to have a look at ConTeXt. It goes the other way for LaTeX and wants to think you about layout more. I use it to create all my slides and have far more fun than with LaTeX beamer for that.
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by Argorak 12y ago
For print-quality stuff?
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by Argorak 12y ago
The first successful attack where the victims stream is passed around as a snuff video will also happen. "Strange Days" explored that topic way ahead of its time, especially in the opening. (Cut away the "fry the brain"-
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by Argorak 12y ago
Schemaless design is a tradeoff like many things. There are systems where being able allow the client to write new data structures can be important. (one example I've seen was a system that tracked arbitrary metric messages from device
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by Argorak 12y ago
Thanks for writing this. I agree, bad feelings and anxiety are not necessarily "bad" if they are coming from an external source, meaningful source. Finding the line is hard, especially as those suffering from an illness quickly fi
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by Argorak 12y ago
The front page says it in the very first paragraph: https://launchpad.net/ bazaar is the provider for code hosting.
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by Argorak 12y ago
I searched and I found no hard evidence for that. There are professions more susceptible to that, but that's usually emergency workers or people in low-wage jobs. I think it's more a backlash because it was often a topic not spoke
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by Argorak 12y ago
I have multiple issues with this. First of all, depression through stresses and clinical depressions are very different and the introductory paragraph is extremely shallow, brushing all over this. Many mental issues can lead to a comorbide
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by Argorak 12y ago
http://www.devpressed.com/
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by Argorak 12y ago
The product being free software doesn't entitle you to anything regarding their project policies, steering and development. It entitles you to a number of rights on the resulting product, nothing less and more. And that's already
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by Argorak 12y ago
http://ftp.company.com makes perfect sense. It is the http listing of the files stored on the server, linking to the actual files served using FTP. FTP isn't made for dynamic content and the file list is just that. The main
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by Argorak 12y ago
The thing is that he didn't do much more than writing the article. He's a sociologist and as such writes about topics that do not necessarily match his opinions. The files didn't give many more reasons beyond that, the prosec

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